You Can't Have This Gorgeous, All-Carbon-Fiber McLaren 675LT Spider

Let's just start with the bad news: McLaren will only make 25 675LT Spiders with the exposed carbon fiber bodywork shown above, and they're all sold out. Even if they weren't sold out, you probably wouldn't be able to afford one, considering it costs $515,000.With that out of the way, lets get to the good news: Holy crap, McLaren will build a 675LT Spider with an exposed carbon body.

Essentially, McLaren Special Operations is giving the LT Spider the same treatment it gave the bare carbon P1 that debuted earlier this year at the Geneva Motor Show. That entails replacing all the body panels with gloss-finish bare carbon, which is a lot easier said than done. The carbon fiber weave has to be bookmatched across the whole car so it looks like one continuous pattern–an expensive and time-consuming process on an already-expensive and painstakingly-assembled car.

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That's why this carbon-bodied 675LT Spider costs $142,400 more than a regular LT Spider. To be fair, $142,400 is a serious chunk of change, but it's less than half of what McLaren charges to have your P1 finished in bare carbon. Everything is relative.

The MSO Carbon Series LT, as its called, will be its own series of 25 cars, rather than being counted in the run of 500 675LT Spiders that sold out last year. McLaren added louvers over the front wheels inspired by the 650S GT3 race car, but otherwise, it's the same as the regular LT Spider. That means you get 666 horsepower, and a 0-60 mph run of 2.9 seconds. Not bad, for a convertible.